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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Sol System: [QB] Re just what the 'verse looks like: Nobody knows. Evidence internal to the show could go either way. There are worrisome rumors that the official position is one system, to be perhaps explicitly confirmed in the movie. (Well, worrisome to me, because that is an awful lot of habitable or nearly habitable planets. ((Taking into account the ones that had to be terraformed, and how extensive their terraforming technology is is another unanswered question.)) I think the number is 70+, from the "Our Mrs. Reynolds" cutscene, but do cutscenes count? Ah, the old questions.) One, well, sort of problem I guess I have with humans being in just one system is, why couldn't Mal and others like him pick up and move to some other star, if they really wanted to be free of the Alliance? It's been done once, at least, and they've got <a href="http://arstechnica.com/columns/science/science-20050423.ars">suspended animation</a>, and if a ship like Serenity can be afforded by an individual, surely a large group of people could get together and purchase something larger and capable of making (much) more distant journeys? Of course, the whole reason people fight wars when they could just run away is because mere survival isn't always the most important thing to the combatants, but the Independents seem to have well and truly lost, and Mal at least seems to have no desire to continue the fight in any real way, beyond the occasional act of civil or not so civil disobedience. It didn't help that the original opening narration made the common yet maddening mistake of confusing "solar system" with "galaxy," as I recall. For that matter, I'd like to know where the "five hundred years in the future" comes from. It's in some of the promotional material for the film, but I can't seem to find any point in the series where it's mentioned. The closest reference is Inara refering to Companion traditions as being "centuries old." I guess the series bible, maybe? There's some discussion on these topics at <a href="http://www.fireflywiki.org/Firefly/HomePage">this here wiki,</a> among other places. So I guess somebody knows. Maybe. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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